Supreme Court hears argument in football coach post-game prayer case
The Supreme Court will likely find that the coach's interest in free speech and free exercise of religion is more compelling than a potential Establishment…
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Supreme Court Declines to Hear Workplace Religious Accommodation Cases
Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it would not be hearing two major workplace religious accommodation cases.
FLORIDA: School that gets gov’t money scrutinized for firing teacher based on sexual orientation
In June, a Florida Seventh-day Adventist school that received state and federal funding fired a teacher because of his sexual orientation.
Founders’ First Freedom urges Supreme Court to Restore Title VII Workplace Religious Accommodation Standard
Today, Founders’ First Freedom, Inc. filed an amicus brief urging the United States Supreme Court to revisit and restore the workplace religious accommodation standard found in Title…
Supreme Court: Religious schools immune from teachers’ discrimination claims
The ethical and moral onus is now on religious institutions as they decide whether to fire "ministerial" employees for reasons illegal in the secular world,…
Supreme Court declines to hear Sabbath accommodation case
The Supreme court has decided against hearing a workplace accommodation case involving a Seventh-day Adventist, but hints that it may revisit employer accommodation standards in…
Supreme Court to decide whether church school teachers are barred from suing for discrimination
The Supreme Court announced today that it would hear arguments in two employment cases involving whether teachers in Catholic Schools can file lawsuits in pursuit…
Court to decide whether Title VII protects LGBT employees
On October 8, 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in two cases involving whether the antidiscrimination provisions of Title VII of the…
Legal and Legislative Update
An update on the status of Patterson v. Walgreen, New York expands statute of limitations on child sexual abuses case, ministerial exception in disability claims,…
Supreme Court rules that Title VII EEOC filing requirements are mandatory but not jurisdictional
The Supreme Court issued a ruling on June 3, 2019, in a case (Fort Bend County v. Davis) involving whether a court may hear a…